u/FrolickingtheWeb

I understand the game gives and the game taketh away.... and not always in the ways we might like.

Example 1: the 7 packs of beef jerky I picked up from one pack when beach-combing

Example 2: the slow but constant trickle of arrows I lose to animals de-spawning or glitching out. A wolf killed a deer on the ice and I decided to shoot the wolf rather than just scaring it away to get all the meat and pelts. Unfortunately not an insta-kill and the wolf was last seen running around between Misanthrope's and Jack Rabbit island. My tally of wolves killed never went up (even though it was a definite hit with blood on the ice). No carcass to be found, and I assume the wolf de-spawned due to the aurora which came on several hours later, although I would have expected the wolf to be dead by then anyway.

The question I have is - what happens to these arrows in the game? Do they appear wherever the wolf was when it de-spawned? Do they just disappear, never to be seen again? Do they pop up somewhere else? Slightly more annoying now I've just found you can't buy manufactured arrows on Interloper 😕

Edit: the consensus seems to be that arrows stay where they were when an animal you killed de-spawns. So the question remains - what happens to arrows in a wounded but not-yet-dead animal that de-spawns, either due to glitches such as going into a loading-screen building, or when the animal de-spawns due to an aurora?

Well.... I wish I'd read this last little paragraph on the Wiki. I was eating one piece of bear meat every day to keep well-fed... thinking that the 1% chance would likely be OK. Cooking level approx 4.5. I've had parasites before on Stalker and it wasn't too bad.

THE GAME WILL HARD-ROLL THE AFFLICTION. Fuck. I've never seen anyone mention this before! Learn from my mistakes survivors. Also, if you skip a day of carnivore meat, does it reset this 'hard-roll inevitability' and go back to 1%??

So this is my first parasites on Interloper. I compounded my misery but taking a couple of doses maybe an hour too early and wasting them. Having to make a trip to another region on day 60 when you still don't have the bear coat because you couldn't find one of the bears you killed....smh. I'm now back at base, I have 5 days left, and 7 doses of Reishi. Wish me luck 😭